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W -- LEASE OF EQUIPMENT SOL 263-96-Q-0200 POC Christine Albin - Purchasing Agent - (301) 402-3355. Intent to Sole Source with Perkin Elmer for a yearly lease of a 7700-01cts Sequence detector. This system will rapidly quantify the amount of HIV, the virus that is considered the causative agent for the disease AIDS, in research samples. The employment of these techniques together with the sequence detector reduces the time for this process from approximately 4 weeks down to approximately 2 hours. This results in a remarkable level of time savings of approximately 2 orders of magnitude, obviously enhancing the research efforts towards developing treatments for this serious disease. The ability of this system to provide real time analysis of samples, and quantitative PCR, sets it apart as the only known system that will satisfy these requirements. Anyone intending to reply to this requirement must send in your capability statement no later than 15 days after issuance. See Note 22 (0078)

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